Ronan was certain that his way of thinking had changed.
In the past, he would most likely... in fact, he had adopted a more conservative strategy, isolating aunt and her family from the information flow related to the Inner World. He had only wanted to keep his loved ones as far away as possible from all that mess, so they would not have to live in fear.
The facts proved that such a conservative strategy was useless.
As Ronan's status in the Inner World rose steadily and his influence over various factions grew greater and greater, the artificial information dam became unbearably fragile under the forces at work. Once the flood burst through, aunt's family would still learn what they were bound to learn.
Not to mention that now, matters involving the Global Census, Raven, Wilderness Ten Days... along with other overt and hidden affairs, had piled together. A considerable portion had already seeped into family life. Even if he wanted to block it, he could not.
Of course, the shift in Ronan's way of thinking was not quite so passive.
After reflecting on it himself, he felt that the key factors behind this change might be his prolonged observation and contemplation through the entirely nonhuman sensory system of Magneto-Optical Mica, which had made him increasingly aware of one thing:
The breadth and depth of perception, experience, and personal encounters, along with the corresponding capacity for thought, played a crucial role in the growth and evolution of life.
In the rapidly changing era ahead, information barriers created by excessive protection, along with the resulting "underdevelopment" and "inability to evolve," might cause even greater harm than facing hardship and disaster head-on.
As for the people at home, Uncle and Aunt were adults after all. They had lived through Grandfather's turbulent times